Politics is not God’s work, it’s a cold-blooded contact sport. The first job of the victor is to punish/eliminate the vanquished, especially if they do not do the honorable thing and fall on their swords. At the very least, and I mean very least, there should be a truth and reconciliation commission formed to root out all of the crimes committed over the past 8 years. If the tables were turned, far worse would happen.

I would respectfully like a little accountability assigned to the guilty. “Mistakes were made” didn’t cut it in the 80’s, and it still doesn’t cut in now. I need to let go ….

Put the bong DOWN!

No, conservatives aren't wrong about everything. It's a sliding definition. By today's standards Nixon was a liberal. (He started the EPA, was he wrong?)

My only hope is that black people will wake up, realize that Lincoln was a Republican (tell me stony, was he wrong?) and stop voting for Democrats who so far, have done little for the plight of their race. Isn't it funny that they never call blacks a "voting block"? I wonder why. When Christians vote in one direction, that's what they get called...

Democrats live on imminent economic collapse and corruption. It seems that all they ever do is scream that the sky is falling, and when they're wrong they just move on to the next world ending problem, and everyone forgets that they were just wrong. They have their hand in the current economic meltdown. They're just not squeaky clean, face it.

When they're not doing that, they're taking bribes and pointing fingers and playing the race card.

But still they have their moments.

Throughout history, conservatives vigorously opposed every advance in science, and were wrong on every count. Conservatives also vigorously opposed every societal advance that improved the lot of the common person, such as labor laws, drinking water standards, worker safety, the environment, etc ad nauseum, and they were of course wrong on every point. Conservatives vigorously opposed the founding of the United States! They were certainly wrong about that. Conservatives oppose everything that would make things better for anyone but themselves. Their policies are based on fear and greed.

Conservatism itself is wrong, morally and ethically wrong, and all of its proponents, pundits and mouthpieces are wrong. David Brooks is wrong. William Kristol is wrong. George Will is wrong. Ronald Reagan was wrong. George Bush is wrong. Poppy Bush is wrong. All of them are wrong. O'Reilly is wrong. Limbaugh is wrong. Hannity is wrong. They are all wrong. Egregiously and unredeemably wrong.

My great hope is that the American middle class will realize that voting for a conservative candidate is a vote against their own best interests. It has always been so. I can understand why a wealthy person might vote for conservative candidates; greedy is as greedy does. But for a working person, salaried or hourly, to vote for a conservative candidate is economic suicide.

The abundant proof of this is in the historical record, and it is obvious in the present economic meltdown. Notice the conservatives giving themselves huge taxpayer-funded bailouts that they will not even account for, but the working person gets foreclosure. Conservatives condemn socialism unless it's to socialize their losses, yet they cry for more tax cuts at the top. Well, screw that and screw them.

How much longer are we going to bend over and take it?

"Somehow liberalism as a populist movement is still relegated to a few San Fran and New York rags, according to the people that just lost the popular vote."

The popular vote went to Obama only AFTER he was able to convince everyone that he wasn't really going to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that he wasn't really a socialist and wouldn't deviate from the state capitalism that has been our governing philosophy for decades. So Tom Tomorrow's declaration that everyone now agrees he was right all along in being anti-capitalist and isolationist is only true in the mind of that low-rent Opus knockoff in the comic strip.

But don't get depressed! Keep ranting about all the people you want to see put in front of a firing squad come the revolution. Let the bitterness fill your cold, black hearts.

Thanks. I'm not a mathematician, and your post about IQ very cogently and explicitly expressed what I intuited.

You're right, the solution is not more government. The solution is also not LESS government. The solution is more enlightenment.

I was making a generalized statement, not an absolute one. Of course there are exceptions, but in general, the voters of this country - and the people of the various countries of the world, for that matter - have been pretty stupid en masse for for a long time. And, no matter how you parse it, any statistical analysis of intelligence supports the essence of my Bell Curve comment.

In other words, you were merely picking nits with my post.

Democrats? Certainly not the ones who approved of the torture, the spying, the wars, the...

Yeah, the obstructionist bastards.

I've been having precisely the same thoughts about the call for post-partisanship (from Obama, no less [and his terrible choice of Rick Warren]).

The cartoon works, but my thoughts are similar to yours.

I've always been skeptical of Happy Horseshit talk of reconciliation, cooperation, bipartisanship, etc.

Not because all of those things aren't desirable and wonderful, but because when politicians and the corporate media commentariat talk about such attractive ideals, you may be sure that it's in the service of blowing off the politically unpopular and risky actions needed to achieve social justice.

I spit when I hear a politician glibly pledge to work for "reconciliation", because I know that the grand notion of reconciliation will be used as a magnificent carpet under which to quietly sweep a multitude of sins. And then we tapdance on the carpet.

The sins, like cockroaches and untreated syphilis, invariably fester and return to bite We the People in our pendulous buttocks.

My fear is not that it's some scurrilous Republican who will talk the talk in the strip; it's that Obama's self-conscious identification with Lincoln will lead naturally to a Lincolnesque proclamation of Letting Bygones Be Bygones, etc.-- pretty much as it's written in the cartoon.

Keep your fingers crossed, if it makes you feel better.